gary started looking into who the anonymous people were and financial times started covering it booz allen contacted them and said well maybe you can help us with our wiki leaks program and met with them and so you know it does seem to be something that is very common among the d.c. firms that are you know revolving door firms in and out of the government and you've been looking through some of these e-mails of these documents do we have any idea what kind of money is involved here how much these people are being paid these security firms how much they're getting to consult even though they themselves are getting hacked they will do the funny thing was that this the security firm who just had fifty five thousand dollars fifty five thousand e-mails put online i believe that the three companies together wanted two million dollars a month for what they do i think they were finally settling. i think the one on two hundred thousand dollars a month for a six. month test period but i'm not even sure that that was executed somehow i have a feeling that they're not going to get as many contracts as

the bank of america is taking this very seriously and has hired some very large players such as booz allen which is staffed with all kinds of former cia and pentagon officials to assist them not only in defending themselves against wiki leaks but in offensively targeting wiki leaks and so part of this effort was really part of that scheme which was a scheme on the part of bank of america using its law firm its large law firm hunton williams that was recommended to a by the justice department to target wiki leaks and undermine and harm it in any way that they could and so while there's no evidence yet that bank of america actually hired these firms to go out and do this that's what these proposals were designed to do and they were being discussed with bank of america's lawyers and several other internet security firms in emails over the course of several weeks and nobody at any point ever said this is something we shouldn't be doing this is probably illegal this is too excessive i don't want to be a part of because they all participated in the planning of it actively and enthusiastically an